In its report, simply entitled Ultracapacitors, the market insight provider, which specialises in energy efficiency, renewable power and electric vehicles, says the electronic components have applications in a number of green industries.
For instance, their smaller physical footprint is finding favour in grid-scale energy storage, as well as for use in wind turbines.
They also may be used in "stop-start vehicles", the most popular transportation application for the technology.
Unlike capacitors, ultracapacitors do not require a dielectric layer between their plates, instead using an air space of just a few nanometres in thickness.
As a result, they need fewer materials and can store much higher charge within a compact physical footprint than their counterpart, the capacitors used among electronic components in the past.
Posted by Sagar Jethani
